Academic News

The following message from Executive Vice Chancellor Vita Rabinowitz was sent to CUNY Chief Academic Officers on September 22, 2016. The June 2011 Board of Trustees resolution on Pathways stipulated that all of the “Pathways policies and processes, including the Common Core, be reviewed and evaluated each year for three years beginning in 2013, and […]

According to the resolution passed by the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York on June 27, 2011, the University Office of Academic Affairs, working with the colleges, “will facilitate the expeditious review and approval of all courses proposed for the Common Core with the assistance of a CUNY-wide committee, appointed by […]

CUNY’s Pathways initiative is in full effect this fall, as required by the resolution passed by the CUNY Board of Trustees in June 2011. Pathways ensures that students transferring among CUNY campuses will not lose general education, major, or elective credits.

The committee, which continues to be chaired by Professor Philip Kasinitz, has been reconstituted for the remainder of the spring semester. In its current format, the committee will divide into three subcommittees, each of which will have its own chair and will be composed of tenured faculty.